Overview
- Investigators arrested 26-year-old Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu and charged him with murder after tracing surveillance and forensic evidence to him.
- Video reviewed by detectives shows the attacker approaching a man on a bench and repeatedly stabbing him in a park, with the victim later identified as 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.
- A residential search warrant recovered the clothes seen in the footage and a 5.5-inch knife that tested presumptive positive for blood, according to the arrest affidavit.
- Ogbodiegwu is being held in the Williamson County Jail on a $1 million bond and a court has ordered a mental-health evaluation as pretrial proceedings continue.
- Reporting notes the attack appears random and the two men did not know each other, and coverage has highlighted Wimsatt's profile as a civil engineer and the broader community reaction to his death.